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Breast Cancer
Findings from Karolinska University broaden understanding of breast cancer
February 19th, 2009
"Both adjuvant therapy and mammography screening can decrease breast cancer mortality and there is a need of knowing to what extent those two modalities are used in the population. Screening coverage is well documented but there is a scarcity of population-based data on use of systemic adjuvant treatment," scientists in Stockholm, Sweden report. "To describe the introduction, and trends in the use of adjuvant systemic therapy for breast cancer in two of six public health regions in Sweden. Population-based data on use of adjuvant therapy were available from databases with documented high quality and high coverage data for Stockholm (1976-2005) and North Sweden...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-02-19)
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